announcements and Blog

So this is an extra special edition of announcements. I know most of us do not like to check our emails during break – partially because we're all forever in denial about our final grades – so below you can find a few announcements that were sent to our listserve. We encourage all of our members to participate in them.

T-shirt Contest

Thus far, we only have a few entries for our club t-shirt contest. The deadline has been extended until January 1, 2017. The winner of the contest will receive a FREE T-SHIRT. That means, you can save the money that you might have used to buy one of our t-shirts and treat yourself to a Super Burrito from Guad's, two dessert crepes from Crepeville or even 4 bagels from the Cohome. The designs can either be hand-drawn or computer designed. Please send all entries to Brigitte with "T-shirt Design Entry" in the subject line.

January's Pet of The MOnth submissions

We will be taking submissions for January's Pet of the Month (POTM) until December 28th at 5 PM. We are changing a few things about POTM. As part of one our changes, we are opening up voting to our club members via our Facebook group. Emailed voting submissions will not be counted.

So if you have not yet joined our Facebook, please do so. If you have any problems joining the Facebook group, please feel free to email any of the board members. We'd be more than happy to add you. We post updates on club events, encourage general chit-chat, and a lot of members offer advice on classes, apartment life (pesky internet services), and more.

POTM SUBMISSION RULES: Since the photos will be posted on our social media, we have added a few rules as some of the photos are hard to crop for banners, events and the website.

You can enter up to 3 photos total

You can always re-enter photos from previous months, still must be a total of 3 photos.

Photo should be horizontally-oriented, a vertically oriented photo will have most of the image cut off, so make sure that if your photo IS vertically oriented that when you make it your cover photo the majority of the picture doesn't get cut off.

Make sure the quality of the photo is clear (not blurry) and has good lighting.

Please be sure to submit all photos to Brigitte with "Pet of the Month" in the subject line before the 28th day of each month before 5 PM. However, the deadline for February POTM is TBA.

1. When did you first adopt/purchase your pet and how did you decide on picking him/her? I adopted Maggie back in August 2016. I went to Petco with my family to purchase items for my rats when my sister told me that there was a chubby guinea pig up for adoption. I asked an employee if she can take her out and I fell in love as soon as I held her. I was even more motivated to adopt her when the employee told me that she's been there for over a month.

2. What do you like most about your companion? (ex. features, personality) I love how chubby she is. Her double chin, her cheeks, ugh. So cute! Of course, I put her on a better diet so she's slimmer than when I first adopted her but she's still quite round.

​3. What is the cutest/most annoying habit your pet does?The cutest habit she has is a common one for guinea pigs. She squeaks whenever she hears the crinkle of a food bag and she'll run up to you and put her front paws onto the bars of her cage so that she's standing on her back legs. How can you resist giving in? She is too cute and that is probably how she gained all that weight initially.

4.What is your favorite activity to do with him/her? I love to relax by watching shows or YouTube videos with her laying on my chest. She'll also cuddle beneath my chin, keeping me nice and warm.

5. Does your pet have any secret talents? She can leap pretty far, at least in my opinion. She will randomly jump around in her cage. I've never seen any of the guinea pigs I've owned before do that.